Hello, I am
Cristina.
I have really enjoyed today in social sciences’ lesson, because we have been only 5 people and Paqui! That’s way I have enjoyed, because we were very relaxed. The rest of the people have been to a school trip to Almadén.
I have really enjoyed today in social sciences’ lesson, because we have been only 5 people and Paqui! That’s way I have enjoyed, because we were very relaxed. The rest of the people have been to a school trip to Almadén.
The first
we have done during today’s lesson is observing a graphic about Bussiness Cycle,
with Kondratiev waves. Paqui has explained it to us: every business has got crisis
from time to time. As the graphic shows, a Kondratiev wave indicates four
different periods in business:
1) A prosperity period: when the wave’s
line goes up until it reaches its top.
2) A recession period: when it starts
going down from its highest point.
3) A depression period: when it goes
down until its lowest point.
4) An improvement: when the line goes
up from the lowest point, meaning, from the depression.
Paqui has told us that experts say
that the next big crisis will take place in 2018. Are you scared about it?
Afterwards, we have learnt the
difference in society between the one during the Industrial Revolution and the
one there was before. During the Industrial Revolution, instead of a
estate-based society, there was a CLASS-BASED SOCIETY: all the people are equal
before the law but there are differences related to each citizen’s wealth.
There were two main social classes: the Bourgeoisie, whose members owned the
means of production; and the Proletariat (or workers), who were obliged to work
to survive.
Then, the lesson has suffered a
little interruption because Rodrigo was showing us a drawing by Inés Rodríguez.
On this drawing we could see strange signs and drawings from the fiction saga “The Mortal Instruments”
(Cazadores de sombras, in Spanish). There have
been a funny moment when, to explain her drawing, Inés has used the word “tongue”. Paqui hasn’t heard it and she has understood “topless”.
Then, to put an end to this interruption, they have said that I have, genetically, a “widow’s
peak” (pico de viuda) in my hair, but I don’t mind, because I love my hair and
it’s cool. Some famous people have it too, such as Alyson Hannigan (the actress
who plays the role of Lily in ‘How I met your mother’)
Going on with the lesson, Paqui has showed
us a nice cartoon about the difference between labor and capital. It's the same shape at the image on the left and the one on the right, but in the first one we can see a poor man while in the second one there is a bourgeois.
Later, we have been talking about the film
and books of “50 Shades of Grey”. Paqui says that they are promoting gender
violence, because these books and film promote women’s submission to men. She
has described it as a “penny dreadful” (novelucha). Inés Rodríguez and my mum
are going to see the film, so they’ll be able to give us their opinions.
As you can see, we have learnt some terms
we didn’t know in English. We have also learnt the terms WIMP (or WUSS), which
means “calzonazos” in Spanish, and DREADFUL, which means “insoportable” (it’s
even worse than awful). I think Rodrigo has been so dreadful today, because he
has written a lot of stupid things on the blackboard.
It has been a very, very funny and nice
lesson.
So long!
Hello,
ReplyDeleteThese are my corrections. We didn't advance much, but as you say, it was an interesting lesson and we spoke about many interesting things in English. The only thing you forgot is that the word “dreadful” appeared when I explained that the working conditions of workers were dreadful and Rodrigo asked about the meaning of this word. This was the connection between the lesson and the expression “penny dreadful” and the novel and the film.
There are some small mistakes in the following paragraphs:
Afterwards, we have learnt the difference in society between the one during the Industrial Revolution and the one that existed before. During the Industrial Revolution, instead of an estate-based society, there was a CLASS-BASED SOCIETY: all the people are equal before the law but there are differences related to each citizen’s wealth. There were two main social classes: the Bourgeoisie, whose members owned the means of production; and the Proletariat (or workers), who were obliged to work to survive.
Then, the lesson has suffered a little interruption because Rodrigo was showing us a drawing by Inés Rodríguez. On this drawing we could see strange signs and drawings from the fiction saga “The Mortal Instruments” (Cazadores de sombras, in Spanish). There has been a funny moment when, to explain her drawing, Inés has used the word “tongue”. Paqui hasn’t heard it and she has understood “topless”.
Going on with the lesson, Paqui has showed us a nice cartoon about the difference between labor and capital. It's the same shape as the image on the left and the one on the right, but in the first one we can see a poor man while in the second one there is a bourgeois.
Later, we have been talking about the film and books of “50 Shades of Grey”. Paqui says that they are promoting gender violence, because these books and film promote women’s submission to men. She has described it as a “penny dreadful” (novelucha). Inés Rodríguez and my mum are going to see the film, so they’ll be able to give us their opinions.
That's all. Good work.